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  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,795 Views
17 Pages

7 June 2019

Due to booming economic development over the past decades, energy demands in most of China’s provincial power grids have increased sharply, and it has become challenging to guarantee the energy balance at peak periods. In many provincial electr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,204 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2022

Co-generation units (i.e., combined heat and power plants—CHPs) are playing an important role in fulfilling the heat and power demand in the energy system. Due to the depletion of fossil fuels and rising carbon footprints in the environment, it is ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,609 Views
19 Pages

Economic Load Dispatch (ELD) is a key issue in power systems and its goal is to achieve minimum economic costs by allocating the output of generator units when satisfying the load demands and the operating constraints. As the dimension of the variabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,634 Views
26 Pages

8 March 2022

This work tackles a relatively new issue in power system operation, known as the Environmental/Economic Dispatch problem. For this purpose, the combination of two powerful heuristic algorithms, namely, the Exchange Market Algorithm (EMA) and Adaptive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,265 Views
27 Pages

A Social Group Optimization Algorithm Using the Laplace Operator for the Economic Dispatch Problem

  • Dinu Calin Secui,
  • Cristina Hora,
  • Florin Ciprian Dan,
  • Monica Liana Secui,
  • Horea Nicolae Hora and
  • Emil Gligor

4 February 2025

The economic dispatch (ED) problem focuses on the optimal scheduling of thermal generating units in a power system to minimize fuel costs while satisfying operational constraints. This article proposes a modified version of the social group optimizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,419 Views
27 Pages

Modified Cuckoo Search Algorithm: A Novel Method to Minimize the Fuel Cost

  • Thang Trung Nguyen,
  • Dieu Ngoc Vo,
  • Nguyen Vu Quynh and
  • Le Van Dai

23 May 2018

Economic load dispatch (ELD) is an important optimization problem for operating and controlling modern power systems, and if ELD is effectively executed, power systems work stably and economically. The main objective of this paper is to develop a nov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,370 Views
29 Pages

An Effective Method for Minimizing Electric Generation Costs of Thermal Systems with Complex Constraints and Large Scale

  • Bach Hoang Dinh,
  • Thanh Van Pham,
  • Thang Trung Nguyen,
  • Gabriela Nicoleta Sava and
  • Minh Quan Duong

19 May 2020

In this paper, an improved antlion optimization algorithm (IALO) was proposed to search for promising solutions for optimal economic load dispatch (ELD) problems to minimize electrical generation fuel costs in power systems with thermal units and to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,020 Views
16 Pages

8 March 2025

This study introduces an Enhanced Local Search (ELS) technique integrated into the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) algorithm to address the Economic Dispatch (ED) problem characterized by a continuous cost function. This paper combines Lambda Iteration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,681 Views
25 Pages

Deployment Protection for Interference of 5G Base Stations with Aeronautical Radio Altimeters

  • Zhaobin Duan,
  • Zhenyang Ma,
  • Jie Bai,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Ke Xu and
  • Shun Yuan

5 April 2024

In this manuscript, we present a novel deployment protection method aimed at safeguarding aeronautical radio altimeters (RAs) from interference caused by fifth-generation (5G) telecommunication base stations (BSs). Our methodology involves an integra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
846 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Moving Work Vehicles on Traffic Flow in City Tunnel

  • Song Fang,
  • Wenting Lu,
  • Jianxiao Ma and
  • Linghong Shen

Within urban tunnels, the lane boundary lines are typically solid, thereby prohibiting lane changes and overtaking. The establishment of a mobile operation zone in the slow lane can pose significant driving safety hazards not only to the slow lane wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,266 Views
12 Pages

21 July 2017

The economic dispatch problem of a virtual power plant (VPP) is becoming non-convex for distributed generators’ characteristics of valve-point loading effects, prohibited operating zones, and multiple fuel options. In this paper, the economic dispatc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,505 Views
23 Pages

27 December 2022

Economic dispatch (ED) problems, especially in multi-area power networks, have been challenging concerns for power system operators for several decades. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for solving the multiobjective multi-area dynamic ED...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,295 Views
15 Pages

19 January 2018

In this paper, a distributed randomized gradient-free algorithm (DRGF) is employed to solve the complex non-convex economic dispatch problem whose non-convex constraints include valve-point loading effects, prohibited operating zones, and multiple fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,361 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2020

A modified particle swarm optimization and incorporated chaotic search to solve economic dispatch problems for smooth and non-smooth cost functions, considering prohibited operating zones and valve-point effects is proposed in this paper. An inertia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,095 Views
22 Pages

Rockfall Analysis of Old Limestone Quarry Walls—A Case Study

  • Malwina Kolano,
  • Marek Cała and
  • Agnieszka Stopkowicz

4 September 2025

This article presents the results of a rockfall analysis conducted for the limestone walls of a former quarry that is now used as an urban park. The performed simulations (2D statistical analysis using Rigid Body Impact Mechanics—RBIM and Discr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,988 Views
25 Pages

A Novel Multi-Population Based Chaotic JAYA Algorithm with Application in Solving Economic Load Dispatch Problems

  • Jiangtao Yu,
  • Chang-Hwan Kim,
  • Abdul Wadood,
  • Tahir Khurshiad and
  • Sang-Bong Rhee

26 July 2018

The economic load dispatch (ELD) problem is an optimization problem of minimizing the total fuel cost of generators while satisfying power balance constraints, operating capacity limits, ramp-rate limits and prohibited operating zones. In this paper,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,980 Views
22 Pages

An Effective Algorithm for MAED Problems with a New Reliability Model at the Microgrid

  • Amirreza Naderipour,
  • Akhtar Kalam,
  • Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek,
  • Iraj Faraji Davoudkhani,
  • Mohd Wazir Bin Mustafa and
  • Josep M. Guerrero

This paper proposes a new framework for multi-area economic dispatch (MAED) in which the cost associated with the reliability consideration is taken into account together with the common operational and emission costs using expected energy not suppli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,789 Views
36 Pages

The Economic Dispatch Problem (EDP) plays a critical role in power system operations by trying to allocate power generation across multiple units at minimal cost while satisfying complex operational constraints. Traditional optimization techniques st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
864 Views
29 Pages

19 December 2024

With the increasing application of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units, Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch (CHPED) has emerged as a significant issue in power system operations. To address the complex CHPED problem, this paper proposes an effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,108 Views
26 Pages

13 June 2019

The economic load dispatch (ELD) problem is a complex optimization problem in power systems. The main task for this optimization problem is to minimize the total fuel cost of generators while also meeting the conditional constraints of valve-point lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,853 Views
16 Pages

Neural Network Reflectance Prediction Model for Both Open Ocean and Coastal Waters

  • Lipi Mukherjee,
  • Peng-Wang Zhai,
  • Meng Gao,
  • Yongxiang Hu,
  • Bryan A. Franz and
  • P. Jeremy Werdell

30 April 2020

Remote sensing of global ocean color is a valuable tool for understanding the ecology and biogeochemistry of the worlds oceans, and provides critical input to our knowledge of the global carbon cycle and the impacts of climate change. Ocean polarized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,688 Views
20 Pages

5 July 2023

Economic dispatch (ED) attempts to find the most cost-effective combination of power generation units while meeting operational constraints. Another problem that can’t be resolved by standard economic dispatch problems is figuring out the metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
31 Pages

Enhanced Social Group Optimization Algorithm for the Economic Dispatch Problem Including Wind Power

  • Dinu Călin Secui,
  • Cristina Hora,
  • Florin Ciprian Dan,
  • Monica Liana Secui and
  • Horea Nicolae Hora

11 January 2026

The economic dispatch (ED) problem is a major challenge in power system optimization. In this article, an Enhanced Social Group Optimization (ESGO) algorithm is presented for solving the economic dispatch problem with or without wind units, consideri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,530 Views
25 Pages

A High-Performance Stochastic Fractal Search Algorithm for Optimal Generation Dispatch Problem

  • Ly Huu Pham,
  • Minh Quan Duong,
  • Van-Duc Phan,
  • Thang Trung Nguyen and
  • Hoang-Nam Nguyen

11 May 2019

This paper proposes applications of a modified stochastic fractal search algorithm (MSFS) to solve the economic load dispatch problem (ELD) in which valve-point effects, prohibited operating zones, power losses in all conductors, multi-fuel sources a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
494 Views
21 Pages

Two Modifications of MinSum Algorithm for Efficient System-Optimal Traffic Assignment

  • Nikica Hlupić,
  • Danko Basch,
  • Edouard Ivanjko and
  • Martin Gregurić

29 September 2025

Traffic assignment in large urban areas is an old but increasingly important problem because of the rapid growth of the world population and traffic demands. Many algorithms have been developed but their convergence rates and complexities are still p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
419 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2025

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) at SAE Levels 3 require a take-over request to switch from autonomous to manual mode when leaving the operational design domain (ODD). An appropriate take-over request lead time (TORlt) is necessary for safe interaction betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,358 Views
37 Pages

5 July 2020

This paper presents a multi-objective economic-environmental dispatch (MOEED) model for integrated thermal, natural gas, and renewable energy systems considering both pollutant emission levels and total fuel or generation cost aspects. Two cases are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,030 Views
34 Pages

6 June 2023

The economic emission dispatch problem (EEDP) is a nonconvex and nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problem in the power system field. Generally, fuel cost and total emissions of harmful gases are the problem objective functions. The EEDP decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
12,706 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2016

The changes of the seabed environment caused by a natural disaster or human activities dramatically affect the life span of the subsea buried cable. It is essential to track the cable route in order to inspect the condition of the buried cable and pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,285 Views
23 Pages

Automated Lane Centering: An Off-the-Shelf Computer Vision Product vs. Infrastructure-Based Chip-Enabled Raised Pavement Markers

  • Parth Kadav,
  • Sachin Sharma,
  • Johan Fanas Rojas,
  • Pritesh Patil,
  • Chieh (Ross) Wang,
  • Ali Riza Ekti,
  • Richard T. Meyer and
  • Zachary D. Asher

5 April 2024

Safe autonomous vehicle (AV) operations depend on an accurate perception of the driving environment, which necessitates the use of a variety of sensors. Computational algorithms must then process all of this sensor data, which typically results in a...